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What's the point of saving someone's life when they are just going to get old and die? ("Meaning" is not something that you can prove to others. Many people wo
by forensic 16y ago
What's the point of saving someone's life when they are just going to get old and die?
("Meaning" is not something that you can prove to others. Many people would find your job meaningless, while you may find it highly meaningful. The point is that each person's search for meaning is very individual.)
- Hoff 16y agoMeaning? There's an existential discussion or two buried in there somewhere. Which leads into existence, and whether all of us are merely a figment of the viewer's imagination. And the point of saving someone's life? That discussion can go anywhere from existential to darwinian to whether you'll choose bluepill or redpill. As for one trigger of these sorts of introspections, burnout can happen in EMS and medicine in general, and other environments that cope with chaos and death, too. Getting burnt is not fun, regardless of whether EMS was the trigger, or working in a high-stress startup, or whatever.